Tomorrow, the polls will open and voters will choose the next president of the United States. Political junkies are staying close to their TVs and Twitter feeds for any updates.

But, really, who needs to wait until tomorrow night to get the post-election spin?

In our 24/7 media world, political operatives already are preparing their excuses for losing or reasons for winning. Howard Kurtz, the anchor of CNN’s Reliable Sourcescheekily calls this the “new trend in journalism: analyzing a big event before it happens.”

“In the old days, let’s say 2008, you’d wait to see who won and who lost, and then you would analyze and pontificate,” Kurtz said. “But now, we get to do it in advance.”

Rather than predict who will win or lose the election and why, Kurtz hypothesizes what will be said in the aftermath.

If Mitt Romney loses, Kurtz said experts will say Hurricane Sandy halted his momentum and gave Obama a chance to shine during the recovery efforts. What’s more, Romney is an “awkward candidate” who is “not conservative enough” and “keeps changing his mind.”

On the other hand, Kurtz predicts an Obama loss will be attributed to his lackluster first debate and a vague and uninspired second term agenda.

“He barely showed up, he wasn’t engaged, he was sleepwalking,” Kurtz said. “If he had come out strong in that debate, the whole narrative of the campaign would have been changed.”

Conservative super PACs may also play a role in the dialogue, overwhelming the incumbent with a financial disadvantage he didn’t face the last time around.

Kurtz even brings up another favorite and inflammatory topic of why people might vote for the president: “I’m sure some people might look at the percentage of white vote that Obama gets and say there were racial voting patterns as well, although that did not stop him from winning in 2008.”

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“There has been a manic-depressive quality to reporting on the race, as the conventional wisdom has changed shape like an overactive amoeba,” Kurtz wrote in an CNN blog.

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